Microsoft’s hypervisor (Hyper-V) has been released to manufacturing (RTM). Hyper-V is Microsoft’s “bare metal” hypervisor used for hardware virtualization. This marks Microsoft’s entrance into the space of hypervisors such as VMWare ESX and Xen. Hyper-V can be run on Windows Server 2008 Server Core as well as added as a role to an existing Windows Server 2008 server. Hyper-V should show up on Windows Update starting July 8th.

Be sure to check out the Microsoft Virtualization Team Blog to get spotlights on features of Hyper-V…

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